Numbers 6:16

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Then shall the priest bring them near before Yahweh, - and offer his sin-bearer and his ascending-sacrifice;

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

King James Version
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord , and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Lexham English Bible
The priest will present before Yahweh and offer his sin offering, his burnt offering;

New Century Version
"‘The priest will give these offerings to the Lord and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

New English Translation
"‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

Amplified Bible
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer the person's sin offering and his burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The which the Priest shal bring before the Lorde, and make his sinne offering and his burnt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
The priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them, so that I will be pleased and will forgive you.

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen is to bring them before Adonai , offer his sin offering, his burnt offering,

Darby Translation
And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering and his burnt-offering:

Easy-to-Read Version
"The priest will give these things to the Lord , and then the priest will make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

English Standard Version
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering:

Good News Translation
The priest shall present all these to the Lord and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering.

Christian Standard Bible®
“The priest is to present these before the Lord and sacrifice the Nazirite’s sin offering and burnt offering.

Literal Translation
And the priest shall bring them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shall brynge it before the LORDE, and shal make his synofferynge and his burntofferynge,

American Standard Version
And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Bible in Basic English
And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall bryng them before the Lorde, and offer his sinne offeryng and his burnt offeryng.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering.

King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sinne offering, and his burnt offering.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole-burnt-offering.

English Revised Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Berean Standard Bible
The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche the preest schal offre bifor the Lord, and schal make as wel for synne as in to brent sacrifice.

Young's Literal Translation
`And the priest hath brought [them] near before Jehovah, and hath made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering;

Update Bible Version
And the priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

World English Bible
The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

New King James Version
"Then the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering;

New Living Translation
The priest will present these offerings before the Lord : first the sin offering and the burnt offering;

New Life Bible
Then the religious leader will give all these to the Lord and his sin gift and his burnt gift.

New Revised Standard
The priest shall present them before the Lord and offer their sin offering and burnt offering,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.

Revised Standard Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying: ² Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, - When any man or woman, would make the special vow of One Separate, by separating himself unto Yahweh, ³ from wine and strong drink, shall he separate himself, neither vinegar of wine nor vinegar of strong drink, shall he drink, - and no liquor of grapes, shall he drink, no grapes fresh or dried, shall he eat. ⁴ All the days of his separation, of nothing that is made from the grapevine from the seeds even to the skin, shall he eat. ⁵ All the days of his vow of separation, no razor, shall pass over his head, - until the days are fulfilled for which he shall separate himself to Yahweh hallowed, shall he be, letting the locks of the hair of his head grow long. ⁶ All the days for which he hath separated himself unto Yahweh to no dead person, shall he go in. ⁷ Neither for his father nor for his mother nor for his brother nor for his sister, shall he make himself unclean-not even for them, should they die, - because, his separation unto God, is upon his head, ⁸ All his days of separation hallowed, is he unto Yahweh. ⁹ But if one that is dying should die by him in a moment suddenly, then shall he count unclean his head of separation, - and shall shave his head, on the day he cleanseth himself, on the seventh day, shall he shave it. ¹⁰ And on the eighth day, shall he bring in. two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, - unto the triest, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting;

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Numbers 8:12 - the one

Cross-References

Genesis 7:16
And, they that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him, - and Yahweh shut him in round about.

Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made;

2 Samuel 6:16
Now it so came about that, when the ark of Yahweh entered the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter, looked out through the window, and saw King David, leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him, in her heart.

2 Kings 9:30
Now, when Jehu entered Jezreel and, Jezebel, heard of it, she set her eyes in stibium, and ornamented her head, and looked forth through the lattice.

Ezekiel 41:16
the entrance spaces and the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, over against the entrance spaces wainscoted with wood, round about on every side, - and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows, were covered;

Ezekiel 42:3
over against the twenty which pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement which pertained to the outer court, was gallery facing gallery, by the thirties;

Luke 13:25
when once the householder shall rouse himself, and lock the door, and ye begin to stand, outside, and to knock at the door, saying - Lord! open to us; and he shall answer and say unto you - I know you not, whence ye are.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall bring [them] before the Lord,.... All the above offerings to the altar of burnt offering, and there present them to the Lord in the name of the Nazarite:

and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: here they stand in the proper order in which they were offered.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the voluntary adoption for a time of obligations to high and strict modes of self-dedication resembling, and indeed in some particulars exceeding, those under which the priests were placed. The present enactments do not institute a new kind of observance, but only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Numbers 6:2.

Numbers 6:2

A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite. This term signifies “separated” i. e., as the words following show, “unto God.” It became a technical term at an early date; compare Judges 13:5, Judges 13:7; Judges 16:17.

Numbers 6:3

Liquor of grapes - i. e. a drink made of grape-skins macerated in water.

Numbers 6:4

From the kernels even to the husk - A sour drink was made from the stones of unripe grapes; and cakes were also made of the husks Hosea 3:1. This interdict figures that separation from the general society of men to which the Nazarite for the time was consecrated.

Numbers 6:5

Among the Jews the abundance of the hair was considered to betoken physical strength and perfection (compare 2 Samuel 14:25-26), and baldness was regarded as a grave blemish (compare Leviticus 21:20 note, Leviticus 13:40 ff; 2 Kings 2:23; Isaiah 3:24). Thus, the free growth of the hair on the head of the Nazarite represented the dedication of the man with all his strength and powers to the service of God.

Numbers 6:7

The consecration of his God - i. e. the unshorn locks: compare Leviticus 25:5 note, where the vine, left during the Sabbatical year untouched by the hand of man, either for pruning or for vintage, is called simply a “Nazarite.”

The third rule of the Nazarite interdicted him from contracting any ceremonial defilement even under circumstances which excused such defilement in others: compare Leviticus 21:1-3.

Numbers 6:9-12

Prescriptions to meet the case of a sudden death taking place “by him” (i. e. in his presence). The days of the dedication of the Nazarite had to be recommenced.

Numbers 6:13

When the days of his separation are fulfilled - Perpetual Nazariteship was probably unknown in the days of Moses; but the examples of Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist, show that it was in later times undertaken for life. Again, Moses does not expressly require that limits should be assigned to the vow; but a rule was afterward imposed that no Nazarite vow should be taken for less than thirty days. To permit the vow to be taken for very short periods would diminish its solemnity and estimation.

Numbers 6:14, Numbers 6:15

The sin-offering (compare the marginal references), though named second, was in practice offered first, being intended to expiate involuntary sins committed during the period of separation. The burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:10 ff) denoted the self-surrender on which alone all acceptableness in the Nazarite before God must rest; the peace-offerings (Leviticus 3:12 ff) expressed thankfulness to God by whose grace the vow had been fulfilled. The offerings, both ordinary and additional, required on the completion of the Nazarite vow involved considerable expense, and it was regarded as a pious work to provide the poor with the means of making them (compare Acts 21:23 ff; Acts 1:0 Macc. 3:49).

Numbers 6:18

Shave the head - As the Nazarite had during his vow worn his hair unshorn in honor of God, so when the time was complete it was natural that the hair, the symbol of his vow, should be cut off, and offered to God at the sanctuary. The burning of the hair “in the fire under the sacrifice of the peace offering “represented the eucharistic communion with God obtained by those who realised the ideal which the Nazarite set forth (compare the marginal reference).

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall wave them - i. e. by placing his hands under those of the Nazarite: compare Leviticus 7:30.

Numbers 6:21

Beside that that his hand shall get - The Nazarite, in addition to the offerings prescribed above, was to present free-will offerings according to his possessions or means.